Fp&a - Senior Directo

**Role**: Senior Director - FP&A

**Status**: Permanent

**Location**: Toronto, ON

Our client, the world's largest multi-brand specialty travel portfolio, is currently looking for a Senior Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis to join their team in the Toronto area

**The Senior Director - FP&A will be responsible for**:

- Develop, prepare and manage financial planning, forecasting and analysis function, including variance analysis against previous forecasts and understanding the drivers of YTD vs. YTG performance, across P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.
- Prepare annual budgets and longer-term strategic plan templates and presentations, incorporating KPIs and performance measures, including funneling.
- KPIs and performance measures, including funnel (leads, conversion), sales, pricing and financial metrics.
- Identify and monitor areas of opportunity and risk performance, both P&L and cash flow, with supporting analysis, including responsibility for maintaining operating accounts.
- Supporting analysis, including responsibility for maintaining O&R finances with phasing in collaboration with budget managers.
- Ongoing development of KPIs and results dashboards for management team and parent company.
- Gap analysis and transition reports between actual results and previous year's forecasts, budget and financial results.
- Draw lessons for future forecasts and identify areas for performance improvement and cost minimization.
- Perform ad hoc analysis to support data-driven decision-making across the organization.
- Lead packages for monthly business review meetings and quarterly business unit updates, creating presentations that provide insight into business activities.
- Creating presentations that provide insightful analysis, identify required actions and effectively frame decisions to be made.
- Improve the timely dissemination of financial results and forecasts to budget holders and department heads, taking ownership and ensuring action items are taken and reviewed.
- Ensure that action items are taken and reviewed at least monthly with department heads.
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with business partners and cross-functional teams at all levels of the organization.
- Maintain financial models that feed into execution summaries, such as cost variance analysis (fuel divided by price and consumption, shipping staff salaries vs. travel).
- consumption, shipping staff salaries vs. trips, variable vs. fixed costs and underlying factors, etc.).
- Responsible for the financial modeling of season launches, including costing and overall financial metrics, season by season and ship by ship, as well as trend analysis
- Work with sales and commercial teams on customer booking and deposit forecasts and strategies to improve these forecasts, including the impact of promotions and competition.
- Work with sales and marketing teams on customer booking and deposit forecasts and strategies to improve them, including the impact of promotions/discounts and customer terms and conditions.
- Work with project teams to report and analyze expenses against forecasts/budgets for major capital projects and other initiatives, including M&A opportunities.
- Intimately understand each P&L line, key contracts, key decisions, key drivers and bring challenges and insights on efficiencies, including ROI of company products and services.

**The required qualifications for the Senior Director - FP&A are**:

- 10+ years experience in financial planning and business analysis.
- MBA or CA/CPA preferred.
- Proven and extensive financial forecasting, budgeting and modeling experience in an equivalent organization.
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, ability to prepare PowerPoint presentations for management team.
- Experience of Hyperion would be an asset.
- Strong financial acumen and understanding of general accounting rules, with a proven track record of high performance financial analysis and reporting.
- Proven track record in financial analysis and reporting.
- Experience as an FP&A manager with frequent contact with all areas of the business, including finance, operations, commercial, sales, marketing and product.
- Experience in a dynamic business requiring iterative financial modeling across a number of scenarios.
- Experience in a fixed-cost business that relies heavily on revenue management to deliver financial results would be ideal.
- Experience in developing highly flexible financial models enabling rapid analysis of constantly changing scenarios.
- Willingness to be both a leader and a "doer" and ability to work with a minimum of direction.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to successfully manage multiple competing priorities while maintaining an overview.
- Interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to interact with different levels of management.